The Creative Conversation
The new year is before us. Let’s find out what inspires us, on a deep and meaningful level. Find your own artistic obsession this week. Latch onto another work within your artistic medium that you admire. If you are laying out a new garden design, then search out a...
A Poem to Inspire
I want to share this poem with you today. It is written by the talented poet Naomi Shihab Nye. I hope that it inspires you this week, as you cultivate a sense of purpose for your creative endeavor in the coming year. ALWAYS BRING A PENCIL There will not be a test. It...
Song of the Blackbird
These lyrics crept up on me last night, from the Beatles’ “Blackbird”: Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken...










